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Howard 
Handle: Howard
Real Name: Håvard Pedersen
Lived in: Norway
Ex.Handles: Dr. Chiplover, Doctor Chipblower, Havard Pedersen, Haavard Pedersen
Was a member of: Addonic (ADC), Compact Inc., ICE, Leeds Spreading Division - Light Speed Distribution (LSD), Legend ([L] - LGD), Mental Diseases

Modules: 15  online
Interview: Read!
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Interview


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    •Handle: Howard

    •Group: LSD

    •Date of birth: 6th may 1976


  • 1-How did your interest for computers start? Which year was that?

    • About 1984, I met a guy (well, kid then) 3 year older than me with a Commodore
    64. It was mostly the games at first.


  • 2-What machines did you previously have? What did you do with them?

    • Sinclair ZX Spectum 48kb, Commodore 128, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, Amiga
    4000, Pentium 1 133mhz, AMD Athlon T-Bird 600mhz, AMD XP1800, Intel P4M
    1.5ghz. I started out trying out games on the Spectrum, but within half a
    year I got bored and started programming in basic. Aroug 1987 I discovered
    Master Soundtracker 1.0 on Amiga 500 (I still had C128 around that time,
    didn't get my first Amiga until '91) and started making music which I
    guess was my reason for entering the scene later on when I got my own
    Amiga.


  • 3-For what specific reason did you end up making music rather than gfx, coding?

    • Music was my way of expressing myself. If others ended up using it, so be
    it. :) But I did do coding as well, it's just that none of my intros ever
    got to a releasable state. :) My ProPruner music replay did, however.


  • 4-Which composing programs have you been using? Which one in particular?

    • Master Soundtracker 1.0, Noisetracker 1.0, ProTracker 1.1b - 3.43 (most of
    the versions between), Futurecomposer 1.4, Octamed Soundstudio 1, Renoise.


  • 5-With which module did you feel you had reached your goal?

    • I never did, but "Cucumber boogie" always was one of my favourites. I've
    started a 32-channel 16-bit remake of it in Renoise, but it's still far from
    complete.


  • 6-Is there a tune you would like not to remember? For what reason?

    • I don't remember my worst ones luckily. :p I had a harddisk crash in '96
    in which I lost most of my early works.


  • 7-In your opinion, what's the value of a music in a demo, game?

    • Like it is in movies. It sets the entire atmosphere. Just try watching or
    playing with the music off. It's dull.


  • 8-At present, are you still composing? For professional or leisure purposes?

    • I am for leisure purposes, but it's getting rarer and rarer. I guess
    coding got the better of me.


  • 9-What do you think of today's pieces of music such as mpeg,wave,midi,etc...?

    • Tracking to music is like radio amateurs to communication. It has no practical
    use today, but from time to time it's fun to do things the old way and get
    your hands dirty. :) If you're making music for a listening audience mp3 is
    the convenient way to distribute your work, but for other musicians it's nice
    (and extremely educative) to be able to see the structure of the song in a
    module. However, with Renoise (my tracker of choice) you'd have to have the
    exact same VST plugins as the composer in order to reproduce the sound.


  • 10-Could you tell us some of your all times favourite tunes?

    • Too many to count, and too long ago to remember. My favorite composers was
    Nuke of Anarchy, Tip&Mantronix, Heatbeat and Walkman of Cryptoburners.


  • 11-Are you planning to make an audio cd with some of your music remastered?

    • No. They weren't THAT good. :p


  • 12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

    • Freak power, Tower of power, Pink floyd, Steve Morse Band, Melissa
    Etheridge.....


  • 13-What does/did the amiga/c64 scene give you?

    • Nothing really. I did my work pretty independent from the scene. I didn't
    get that much release, and that wasn't my goal either.


  • 14-Are you still active in the scene these days?

    • No.


  • 15-Anyone to greet? Anything left to say? Feel free...

    • No.


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